Yet regulators and lawsuit-fearful auditors pressed banks and other financial firms to relentlessly knock down the book value of this subprime paper, even in cases where these obligations were being serviced in the payment of principal and interest.

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China has not escaped a knock on effect from this as providers to end customers have passed on cost hikes from their own value chain.

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